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  1. Re:Pull over.... pretty please! on NYPD To Replace Motor Fleet With Electric Scooters · · Score: 1

    Modern police are discouraged from engaging in high-speed chases for two reasons... 1) Danger to the police, the suspect and the general public. 2) The adrenaline rush of the chase makes everyone involved more likely to do something stupid (there was a case where after a policeman managed to stop somebody he was chasing he just walked up to the window of the car and shot the suspect outright due to how much the chase excited him).

  2. Re:but on Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security · · Score: 2, Funny

    The funniest thing about this comment is the idea that it's possible for a Mac user to NOT tell somebody he uses a Mac in any given conversation.

  3. Re:Insanely sloppy... but not without precedent on EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable · · Score: 1

    I don't think games should use files that are named the same as files that are critical for your system to work, just seems sloppy to me. Not just for this kind of problem but that it could also confuse unskilled users.

  4. Re:Trash the World on Privacy Breach In Canadian Passport Application Site · · Score: 1

    Nothing to see here eh?

  5. Re:WTF on How to Turn Your PC into a Mac · · Score: 1

    The disk space is recycled when you empty it.

  6. Re:Here is update (Macrovision SECDRV.SYS Driver) on AntiPiracy Macrovision Bug is Actually Six Years Old · · Score: 1

    Don't say that, once it's proven to be self aware it'll get rights of its own!

  7. Re:Chess on Sony Calls Current Blu-ray/HD DVD Format War a 'Stalemate · · Score: 1

    That's not what stalemate means.

  8. Re:Well on Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I don't think fires are that much of a danger for schools. A school near me burnt down but that was at night and some suspect that it was an insurance job to build a nicer school in its place (that they just happened to already have the plans drawn up for). Have any students died in school fires recently? It seems like an optimum situation to be able to safely evacuate from. Fire exits everywhere, fire-proof doors, regular drills, somebody in front of each class who can lead students to safety. That's not even mentioning how many fire alarms and bells the schools have so that it's impossible NOT to know that you should be evacuating.

  9. Re:No. on Games All Downhill Since Pong? · · Score: 1

    We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here and we want them now!

  10. Re:Walls on Wireless Video Transfers 100X Faster Than WiFi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then the way to go would be to put it in one room and then knock holes in the walls for the signal to go through. Even better, if you could concentrate the signal into a smaller width of broadcast you'd need a smaller hole to fit the same signal strength through. For absoulute security and extra directional power (and thus smaller holes) you could put the signal into some kind of insulated metal rope and send it along that directly into the target device. Am I on to something here?

  11. Re:Female Politicians Re:this guy is a liability on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    "Those that are willing to listen will do so, those who are unwilling to listen will simply pick up some other frivilous attribute to attack while ignoring his message." You don't usually debate in order to persuade people who already agree with you.

  12. Re:Let me be the first to say on Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    Who gets to choose where they sit on a plane?

  13. Re:ALS/MND on 'Bionic' Nerve To Repair Damaged Limbs and Organs · · Score: 1

    "Also, axons (the long part of the nerve cell) usually require a myelin cell wrapping along its length to boost its ability to depolarize quickly." In addition, this myelin wrapping is maintained in the peripheral nervous system which allows the cells to repair themselves. In the central nervous system however, it is oligodendrites rather than schwann cells that are responsible for the sheath and they aren't so helpful.

  14. Re:English Scotty??? on Simon Pegg to Play Scotty · · Score: 1

    "The only time I've seen Pegg try to look hard and serious is in Hot Fuzz... and that didn't work... even came off as comical (even in the parts that weren't supposed to be comical)." He does "serious" at some points in Run Fat Boy Run, I thought it was really good.

  15. Re:Ticket Brokers Suck on Ticketmaster Claims Hacking Over Ticket Resale Site · · Score: 1

    If they are really your friend you could probably trust them enough to lend them your credit card to take to the show.

  16. Re:Britishisms? on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    Good point. We're really stuffed when election-time comes rolling around. We can choose between Labour, with their recent history and now with Gordon Brown abusing the anti-terror laws to detain journalists that were trying to interview him, or Conservatives, with David Cameron bargaining OUR rights away to the record companies in return for censorship and that whole "I ride my bike to work but all my stuff is chauffered in my flashy car" fiasco. The only other option is Lib Dem, but I can't help but feel that the only reason I have nothing to hate them for is that they haven't had enough of a chance.

  17. Re:Britishisms? on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    You've also time-travelled to here from over two months ago, apparently.

  18. Re:Wow, that was quick on Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers · · Score: 1

    Would it have made the news if he announced it at the same time? This way the story gets big as an "apple bad?" story, then he flips it into good PR which usually the media isn't so keen on pushing.

  19. Re:It's a good start on Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    "people in the US are not genetically identical to those in Europe," Where do you think most of you guys came from?

  20. Re:Major embarassment on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 1

    I desperately want to believe that he was referring to one of the failed assassination attempts.

  21. Re:Lithium Ions on What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries? · · Score: 1

    Just be thankful he's wasted all of his modpoints there and won't be modding any REAL discussions.

  22. Re:Boned and cool on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't 80% smaller be bigger? 200% smaller would be half-size, 50% smaller would be twice the size etc.

  23. Re:meh. on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    I'm not an apple user, so just out if interest, does the itunes store keep track of the songs that you have downloaded and let you redownload them for free? In that case if you had a sudden hankering for an album you like but is not loaded onto the device near a wifi point you could just quickly download it for free. Saying that, in my experience the itunes store has been pretty slow and it would probably rely on your buying the music through itunes in the first place unless apple had some kind of "I own this album" CD-recognition thing going on.

  24. Re:And.... on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1

    Wow, that explains the complete lack of scientific discoveries by religious people in history, thank you. It's obvious from your "An skeptic" that you were originally going to write atheist, by the way.

  25. Re:DNA samples tend to clear the innocent ... on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 3, Informative

    IANAMG (I am not a molecular geneticist) but I've taken an undergraduate module in genetics. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the identifying information used in police databases of DNA does not contain the complete genetic code of the individual, only samples of where it tends to vary the most between individuals. Because of this, I don't THINK the data would be kept in such a way that would allow it to be analyzed to find anything except for a genetic match with a sample or to determine if there is a blood relationship. That's not to say that I as a UK citizen I don't oppose this completely, I'm still worried about it for other reasons.